tombstones

Example Sentences

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Soldiers who demonstrated "extraordinary valour" are honoured with outdoor graves and tombstones, while others are commemorated in urns inside the columbarium.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

In the town's cemetery, an AFP journalist saw a hole that looked like a dug-up grave, surrounded by other tombstones.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

But now they have become a pair of tombstones.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

Since then, volunteers—also known as “gravers”—have stalwartly photographed and recorded tombstones, mausoleums, crosses, statues, and all other manner of graves for posterity.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

As I read the names of the tombstones in my head, it was almost like a weird roll call, like I was saying hello to all these people.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds